Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!"
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John Oliver
Comedian
"Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts."
Paolo Rossi
Footballer
"The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist, Author
"My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam."
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"Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period."
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"Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]."
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"[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug."
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"My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married."
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"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"
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"Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat."
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